What are you looking forward to about that matchup?

Yeah, I was just just having fun and kind of being on the court, goofing around each other again, just just to be just to be around him again.

Have you been following him from afar?

Since he's come back from injury, have you been able to chat with him and, you know, give him little nuggets along the way?

Oh, yeah.

My favorite moment was really his first game.

You know, it took him a little bottom warm up to it.

But once he went off, I saw it coming in.

I was just really height for.

Are you able to tell him things?

You got to play a couple of games before him.

Were you able to look over and say, Hey, just so you know, this is how it's different than when we were in college?

Yeah, we would talk when he was hurt, and I was just telling man, when you come back, you about to kill this leave and we've endured.

And speaking of the difference between college and the MBA, how is your prep for games for practice.

Your routine change now that you've been in the N B.

A for a couple of us is way different.

It's like a full time thing is all day, Every day you gotta know.

You gotta grind it out.

Just I don't know.

There's so many games and you really gotta take care your body and you have to get your extra work.

And just so many factors.

Can you give me one example of something maybe you used to do in college?

That you don't need more or something that you did do in college is even more important now.

I guess I kind of what I do now more of is I've really prep a lot more now than I did in college, not make sure I come in early, get no get treatment, shoot everything state after just not really a lot more because there's more games and the game demands more.

So I know that they're two very different environments.

But can you compare, in contrast, Madison Square Garden fans, which you know world's most famous arena with the Cameron Crazies?

I will say Cameron is, you know, it's a smaller German and the fans are basically on the court with you, so that's, Ah less different.

Will this be one of your first seasons where the the blessing of being a really excellent college player is getting drafted very high?

But that oftentimes means you're going to a team that has a little bit more work to dio a little bit more rebuilding to Dio.

Is it an adjustment for you to adjust to maybe not going out in dominating teams every night to not be a over 500 team?

So when I was speaking to my golf out of Steve Nash, he really told me that this is actually kind of a blessing.

No, I get to go through this and get to go to a struggling.

So he said that when we do win, when we start winning, you know I'll be able to appreciate it even more.

What do you do mentally?

Because you are used to that to take care of yourself, to say, you know what I might My whole being doesn't hang on the balance of the outcome of this game.

I'm going to be able to take care of myself in other ways.

What do you?

What do you do to do that?

So I have a great support system, you know, a great family, everybody always encouraging me to keep going.

And also, I think it's my rookie year, so I can't really just, you know, hang my hat on everything that's happening now.

What did you learn when you weren't able to play that you maybe wouldn't have learned if you were out on the court?

To be honest, I was just I was just really watching, watching everything, watching little things like players tendencies or just you know, how our team plays and just just a lot of a lot of different things toe that when I came back, tried to, you know, just just add positive, thanks to the team.

I remember when you came into the league, you were so excited to be in New York.

How does being there now for a couple of months compared to what you had built it up to me in your mind?

And what's different still get every time I get to play in the garden.

It's just like I'm a little kid in a candy store.

Just you get to see all the fan and everybody you know is ruining for uses.

That's great.

It seems like you are the star that the Knicks, you guys were married for each other, each other of a match made in heaven.

What do you think you can do to help get that same kind of excitement toe other guys around the league?

Because not everyone is as excited as you are about this really storied franchise, I guess.

Tried Teoh say, the traveling, you know, come on, build a winning culture.

Try to get that message betrayed across the league because I know for sure that no everyone wants to win.

So try to get that message out there.

Almost impossible.

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